Bingowings said:

I do think there is a degree of male flesh blindness on this thread.

The main area in this genre where gender prejudice really kicks in is with age and I think that will eventually change as people become equally ageist towards men and women (the idea of a middle aged man being cast in Doctor Who is almost unthinkable at least to the suits at the BBC now, sadly).

Bing's got two good points here.

I think I need to rewatch "Wolverine" and pay close attention to the hot throbbing man-flesh I may have missed the first time through.

I can't believe I just typed that.

I also think he's right that there's increasing sexy-ism bias against men in movies as well. Steve McQueen couldn't be an action star today, with his weak chin and skinny arms. It's a pity that instead of women being less objectified as society advanced, they're being more unrealistically objectified... but so are men so maybe there's a kind of fucked up equality.

Seriously... Doctor FREAKING Who has to be young and sexy? Isn't he like, a magic grandpa? And Tom Baker looked like a tall lawn gnome and he was the best!